Mid-18th Century Engraving in a Mid-19th Century Giltwood Frame

Each engraving depicting a typical street and genre scene, respectively, both in antique walnut frames

depicting a farmer tending to two cows pulling a plow Please go to www.robuck.co to see our complete inventory.

each large engraving framed in period ebonized frame, the scenes depicting Roman views with architecture and figures

a painting is worth a thousand words, but this finely painted work depicts a village with steepled buildings with a fast moving cloudy sky at dusk with a solitary figure at the foreg...

King Charles II of England By Robert White, after Unknown artist line engraving, published 1680

A fine French 18th century Louis XVI st. print titled: Un des Tableaux de la grande Gallerie du Palais Royal (one of the paintings of the grand Gallery of the Royal Palace). The prin...

Decorate a wall with this elegant antique painting. Hand painted in France circa 1820, and set in a gilt wood frame protected with glass, the artwork features two classical women fi...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Beautiful and meticulously detailed etching with sober wooden frame; the paper work, "La Gloire de la France", was made by the famous French engraver Simon Thomassin (Troyes 1665-Paris 1733) in 1724, he made the drawing inspired by an elaborate and particular sculpture, made for the gardens of Versailles, between 1681 and 1683 by Pierre Mazeline (1632-1708) important French neoclassical artist; In the inventory of the Garden in 1706-1708, the statuary group is described as follows: "A figure representing Glory seated on a cloud placed on a celestial globe, surrounded by trophies of arms, with the right arm half raised, holding a laurel wreath, and, with the left, a pyramid. The names of the two artists are imprinted on the print itself. Pierre Mazeline was a very prolific and refined sculptor of recognized talent, he is also the author of other statues in the gardens of Versailles as the "Apollo of Belvedere and "Europe"; he also executed the equestrian statue of Louis XIV...